Crisis Quotes

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

Democracy is finished in England.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

For he who loses all often easily loses himself.

Trust your landmark and run through the smoke. It's going to open up eventually.

AIG’s failure was possible because of the sweeping deregulation of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, including credit default swaps, which effectively eliminated federal and state regulation of these products, including capital and margin requirements that would have lessened the likelihood of AIG’s failure. The OTC derivatives market’s lack of transparency and of effective price discovery exacerbated the collateral disputes of AIG and Goldman Sachs and similar disputes between other derivatives counterparties. AIG engaged in regulatory arbitrage by setting up a major business in this unregulated product, locating much of the business in London, and selecting a weak federal regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS).

Never let a good crisis go to waste

I hope Lee's scandal isn't real.

O God! I screamed, and "O God! Again and again; for there before my eyes - pale and shaken, and half fainting, and groping before him with his hands, like a man restored from death - there stood Henry Jekyll."

Cry "havoc!" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial.

Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don’t even have a tunnel. These generals don’t even know where the tunnel is.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.

If you had the most prestige and you were the network that everybody turned to in times of a crisis, that that was the most important position, in the news business, to hold.

Between the summer of 2015 and spring 2016, Austria became one of the European countries most affected by the migration and refugee crisis.